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* AI data center power consumption will soon exceed the consumption of conventional data centers * Global data center power consumption has risen by 26% since 2025 * In the US, AI data centers account for 36% of all data center power consumption Data centers built to add capacity for AI will soon
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For the last three years I’ve been imploring anyone who will listen to assuage the AI Fear Economy and the AI Doomonomics messaging that dominates our current AI news cycle. The sleepwalkers among us and the ones that stand to financially benefit from the FOBO (Fear of Becoming Obsolete)
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The X by Xreal A01 Plus edge out the TCL RayNeo Air 4 Pro in my early tests, and are lighter, too. 3 min read The price of good displays that fit into eyeglass frames is going down, even if you might not find a need to use them. Display
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If you're an Amazon shopper, you've likely noticed fake brands flooding the website in recent years. A new extension made by developer Josh Pigford promises to hide the phony, cheaply made products and lets you shop like a normal person again. The extension, called Knockoff, is
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Every night in London Björn Ulvaeus and his three band members perform their biggest hits from ABBA’s back catalog. Or rather an AI-created version of the Swedish super-group does. The ‘ABBAtars’ on stage at ABBA Voyage are created through a powerful combination of motion-stop technology and Machine Learning and,
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Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium has extended its total funding to $100 million, adding new investors including NVIDIA just seven months after emerging from stealth. The company said the additional capital will be used to accelerate AI research, expand product development, strengthen its international presence, and establish a new office
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OpenAI has expanded its enterprise AI strategy with the launch of GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, while announcing that its latest flagship model will become the default AI model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot. The move deepens OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft and brings GPT-5.6 to productivity applications including
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering to pay
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Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach some of America’
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Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as “critical third parties” to its financial system, as Reuters first reported. The designation takes
